Updated 9:43 pm, Tuesday, September 25, 2012

SCHENECTADY — Wounds from a gunshot, not a knife, killed a 47-year-old man on Saturday in front of his Elm Street home, city and police officials said.

Mayor Gary McCarthy said Tuesday the initial report Saturday morning was that shots were fired at 65 Elm St. in the city's Central State Street neighborhood.

On Sunday, police identified the victim as Justin Coleman. An autopsy showed he was shot at least twice, including once in the torso.

Neighbors said Coleman, a local disc jockey and U-Haul employee, appeared to live alone and that guests rarely visited his home.

As for the mix-up over the cause of death, a city police spokesman said Tuesday the "appearance of the wounds led everyone to conclude it was a shooting."

Lt. Mark McCracken said results from an autopsy performed Sunday showed Coleman died after being shot.

The killing was the second in less than a year on Elm Street.

In December, Tina Karuzas fatally stabbed her downstairs neighbor at 201-203 Elm St. after a argument over loud music escalated into violence, authorities said.

Karuzas, 27, is facing manslaughter charges after she was accused of stabbing Latoya Ebron in the abdomen during a Dec. 26 argument in Karuzas' upstairs apartment. Ebron lived in the bottom flat.

Karuzas took a knife from her pocket and ordered Ebron, 25, to get out of the apartment when they quarreled over the music in Karuzas' place, authorities said. The two women struggled and Ebron was stabbed with the knife, police said. Karuzas is set to go on trial in the manslaughter case on Nov. 5, trial attorneys said.